According to DTC's 1987 prospectus the Company began limited shipments of its TakeTen
10-megabyte removable-cartridge disk drive in December 1986. The TakeTen is based on
technology developed by Data Technology in collaboration with Eastman Kodak. The storage
cartridge is manufactured by Verbatim Corporation (?Verbatim?), an Eastman Kodak
subsidiary, and incorporates a high-performance flexible magnetic disk encased in a rigid
plastic shell.
The Kodak drive was based on a license from DriveTec
DTC was acquired Qume and changed its name to Qume.
It stopped producing these sorts of drives in 1991
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Guzis [mailto:cclist at
sydex.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 11:48 AM
To: CCtalk
Subject: DTC TakeTen media?
On the subject of oddball PC media, does anyone out there have media for
the DTC "Take Ten" cartridge drive? I've got the drive here, still in
original shrink-wrap and packaging, but no media, so I don't have the faintest idea if
it still works.
As the 5.25" cartridges only held 10MB, I suspect this was a flash-in-the-pan
venture. I'd never heard of one back in the day when everyone was using Bernoulli
drives.
--Chuck